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How To Buy An NYC Apartment
The first step in the NYC buying process is to decide if you are better fit for a co-op or condo. NYC apartments come in two flavors: Co-op (short for "cooperative") and condominium.Older buildings...
View Article8 Don't-Miss Real Estate Deadlines for Buyers, Sellers and Owners
The list of real estate-related stressors is virtually limitless. Whether you have to decide on whether to rent vs. buy or whether to sell vs. stay put, decide on a list price or an offer price, or...
View Article4 Real Estate Resolutions for 2012
If you’re anything like the average New Year’s Resolution-setter, you’ve probably already declared that 2012 will be your year. And that means different things to different people. It might be the year...
View ArticleTara's Top 10 Real Estate Posts of 2011
This year, we’ve covered the ups and downs, tips and tricks, insider secrets and need-to-knows of real estate this year for buyers, sellers, owners and renters - now it’s time to highlight the best....
View Article5 Real Estate Markets to Watch in 2012
Ah, the end of the year. Time to look back, contemplate on the high points and lessons learned over the year, and start to look forward to the next one. And when it comes to looking forward in the...
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Income Inequality Is Making Women More Depressed
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - American women face a greater risk of depression in states where personal income levels vary widely, according to a new study covering 50 U.S. states.Huge income gaps in a...
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Three Graphs That Show How Being A Young Adult In America Is A Financial...
Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote this morning, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60. But you...
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Actually, Poor And Middle-Class Americans Are Richer Than Their Counterparts...
The purpose of the Center for Equitable Growth, a new project from the progressive/left-liberal group Center for American Progress, is “to promote research that explores ideas for achieving economic...
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5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Tipping
Will humans ever stop arguing about tipping? Recently, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells claimed that tipping should be abolished – sending waves of responses across the Internet.Whether...
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7 Things To Think About Before Buying A Stock
There’s lot of advice out there on how to invest, when to invest, what to invest in, and even why to invest. Enough books have been written on the stock market to fill libraries (or flash drives, these...
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Your Problem With Money Is Probably Your Personal Relationship With Money
Gary Sirak’s primary insight in his book If Your Money Talked What Secrets Would It Tell– an insight I happen to agree with – is that the psychology of money, our personal relationship with money – is...
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8 Tax Breaks Expiring At The End Of This Year
April 15 may seem like a long way off, but with a little planning before the end of the year, you could take advantage of tax breaks to help you lower your tax bill.Several tax provisions are scheduled...
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I Lost Money Investing In JC Penney — Here's What I Learned (JCP)
In December 2012, I sang praises to J.C. Penney Co.’s stock. This summer my firm sold it at a loss. In this article I would like to put salt in the open wound and talk about what I learned from the...
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11 Ways Grocery Stores Trick You Into Spending More Money
Supermarkets bring on all the tricks with two things in mind: to increase the time you spend in the store and to increase the direct contact you have with the merchandise.Every part of the supermarket...
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Why ENTJ Personality Types Are Richer Than The Rest Of Us
Have you ever asked yourself why some people make more money than others? Since the late 1970s, the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. has been steadily widening. Today, income inequality is an...
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5 Common Credit Card Mistakes College Students Make
Going to college is all about learning lessons, but we all know that many of the most important bits of knowledge we accumulate over the four years we spend on campus don’t come from the classroom.For...
View Article3 Soothing Insights for Anxious First-Time Sellers
I grew up just a couple of hours from Disneyland. So as a kid, one of my greatest joys (and greatest anxieties) revolved around the Pirates of the Caribbean ride (this was pre-Johnny Depp, folks). I...
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How To Win Every Game On 'The Price Is Right' Without Knowing A Single Price
In a crisp November day eight years ago, I took the only sick day of my four years of high school. I was laid up with an awful fever, and annoyed that I was missing geometry class, which at the time...
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How To Figure Out What Your Car Repair Really Costs
How much do people hate going to auto repair shops? A new survey says 41% of Americans would rather do their taxes — by hand! — than head to a garage for car repairs. And why not? About 60% say they...
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Why A Policy Cancellation Letter Could Be Your Ticket To More Affordable...
My heart sank when I got an email late last month from my friend Robert, who has been battling multiple sclerosis for the past decade.He wrote to tell me that he was among the many Americans who in...
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